> He said "Entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid need to be eliminated." The only thing on the internet that search engines turn up for that exact quote is y

> He said "Entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid need to be eliminated." The only thing on the internet that search engines turn up for that exact quote is your post. Here's the actual quote: > “Most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s the sort of half trillion, maybe six, 700 billion,” Musk said on Monday in an interview with Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow. Musk’s comments came in response to a question from Kudlow about whether there would be a report on targeting waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending. Medicare is around a trillion dollars by itself, so those numbers don't make any sense as the removal of entire programs, but total entitlement spending is several trillion in total and a reduction in those amounts would make sense in the context of targeting waste, fraud and abuse in entitlement spending, which is the thing he was being asked about.